The story
- Mandarin · borrowed from金寧 /金宁
- English todayKinning
From the Nanking court dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of Mandarin 金寧 /金宁 (Jīnníng), from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.